(modified from the www.compassionatecanadians.com "Virtual Medical Marijuana March on Ottawa" website)

This Medical Cannabis Patients Bill of Rights was designed to outline the basic rights of critically and chronically ill medical cannabis patients, and to urge the federal government to protect these individuals from stigma, arrest and prosecution.

a. I should not be a criminal; I am a person living with a medical condition and use cannabis to alleviate my suffering; I am capable of making fundamental decisions about my health.

b. I should have the right to live free of unnecessary suffering, social stigma and interference from the state, and should not have to chose between my personal liberty and my health.

c. I should have the right to produce my own medicine if I am willing and able to do so, or to access it from a safe source without fear of arrest and persecution.

d. It is the federal government's moral, legal and constitutional obligation to defend these basic and inalienable human rights, and to ensure that no organization or individual unduly interferes with them.